Employee Relations Specialist

Employee Relations Specialist

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or progressive work experience in addition to experience below
• Minimum of 7 years of HR or Legal experience with an emphasis in employee relations
• Demonstrated investigative, verbal, written, and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated experience providing employee relations consulting to all levels of management, including developing recommendations and implementing integrated solutions and strategies
• Demonstrated experience applying HR/ER policies, laws, and regulations in a corporate setting
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with cross functional teams in order to develop HR/ER related solutions
• Demonstrated experience consulting with internal and external business partners in a variety of HR disciplines such as Talent Acquisition, HRBP, Organizational Development, HR Operations/Compensation and legal counsel
• Demonstrated experience planning, organizing, and managing multiple concurrent and complex projects related to HR/ER initiatives
• Demonstrated experience gathering, analyzing, and interpreting HR/ER related data; and providing recommendations and resolutions to key stakeholders
• Highly confidential with strong ethical qualities, compassionate with a clear focus on details
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft desktop software necessary to prepare exhibits and documents
• Excellent relationship management skills required in order to effectively partner with staff at all levels of the organization including senior levels of management
• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative and organizational skills
• Requires excellent one-on-one and group presentation and facilitation skills
• Willing and able to travel to any corporate location on short notice to handle critical matters

Responsibilities

• Serves as a professional consultant to Human Resources Business Partners, Recruitment Teams and HR Leadership/Managers offering research and investigative expertise to handle more complex or potentially litigious employee relations issues
• Develops proposals and recommendations related to policies and practices within own specialized area, while understanding the alignment between own specialty and other specialized areas
• Interprets data and assesses the risk associated with policies and programs, makes recommendations to mitigate risk and will escalate as required
• Works closely and effectively with assigned HR partners to ensure business needs are met. Supports the integration and implementation of HR programs across all client groups
• Serves as a mentor and trainer to educate members of the HR staff on the skills and knowledge necessary to comply with policies, procedures and all federal, state and local laws
• Partners to develop policy, training and communications materials on ER topics for the organization
• Represents the company at investigative hearings, settlement conferences, fact-findings, mediation hearings and depositions on assigned cases
• Investigates and properly documents sensitive ER matters in conjunction with and in cooperation with the Chairman’s Service Center and/or Loss Prevention
• Prepares, crafts and negotiates legal documents and documentation that is required to properly communicate and memorialize agreements that are reached in employment matters for any of the corporate entities
• Serves as liaison with outside counsel and participates in all issues related to the timely and cost effective handling of assigned cases
• Develops and conducts a regular audit process of personnel files for employees identified to be at risk for litigation

Preferred Qualifications

• PHR/SPHR Preferred
• Oversees the development, implementation, and maintenance of company policies, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and communicating policies effectively
• Analyze the impact of existing policies and propose necessary amendments
• Ensure organizational compliance with updated policies and regulations
• Maintain detailed records and documentation related to policy work
• Manage policy-related projects from inception through implementation